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Show NEWS SUMMARY A bill providing for the initiative and referendum was defeated in the Nebraska senate. oeorge T. Oliver of Pittsburg has been named as the Republican candi date for United States senator to sue' ceed P. C. Knox. . Grieving over the death of his dog Marline Aororio, a retired ' chef, attempted at-tempted to commit suicide in the city hall at Oakland by biting himself to death. Lumbermen of Arizona, New Mexico Mex-ico and West Texas met at El Paso, Texas, last week in secret session. It is believed the schedule of prices is to be boosted. Ruth Bryan Leavitt. eldest daughter daugh-ter of William J. Bryan, has been granted a divorcefroin W. H. Leavitt, Mrs. Leavitt was granted !.e custody of the two children. Mrs. Lew Crist of Chicago shot and killed her 14-year-old boy and then killed herself at Rushville, Ind. The tragedy occurred at the home of a friend she was visiting. The police of Oakland, Cal., have uncovered a plot which they claim has revealed a modern "Fagin," who has systematically trained a young hoy to rob his employer. Dlans for an extension of the rapid transit system of New York City, to eost about $50,000,000 are being prepared pre-pared by engineers of the Interbor-ough Interbor-ough Rapid Transit company. Thirty or more lives were lost, sixty six-ty people were injured and property worth one million dollars was destroyed de-stroyed as a result of the tornado that wrecked the town of Brinkley, Ark. The first death from cholera of an American in the Philippines for some months was reported to the bureau of insular affairs last week, the victim being Joseph L. Larmour, a civil engineer en-gineer of Baltimore, Md. The National Horse Show association associa-tion of America, in session in New York City, adopted resolutions pledging pledg-ing itself to hold a horse show in 1909. .This disposes 'of all rumors that the horse show was to be abandoned. aban-doned. J. J. Mack is dead, Avery Bernstein is in the hospital with , a bullet over his heart, Policeman Robbins is seriously seri-ously wounded and Detective J. E. Stowe is slightly injured as the result of a shooting affray in San Antonio. Texas. The wife of a Havana cigarmaker, already the mother of fourteen children, chil-dren, gave birth to quadruplets, two hoys and two girls. President Gomez sent his congratulations to the mother as a woman deserving well of the republic. Don Luis Proto, a millionaire ranch owner, merchant and pioneer of the section, was shot from ambush and instantly killed near Devisaderos station, sta-tion, on the Nogales-Cananea railroad, while on the way to his ranch east of Wagdalena, Arizona. The Kansas senate has adopted the report of the railroad committee on ...e 2-cent fare bill. The recommendation recommenda-tion of the committee was that the bill be not passed. This ends the 2-cent 2-cent fare legislation in the Kansas legislature at this session. Urey Jones, on trial at Muscatine, fowa, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Vanwinkle, commit.ed suicide in the ftounty jail by hanging himself with Ms bedclothes. Jones was to have taken the stand in his own defense on the day that he suicided. John Godwin, prominent. Republican Repub-lican politician of Wilmington, Dela., convicted of offering a money bribe to a voter at the last election, was sentenced to a fine of $500 and two years in prison. Godwin took an appeal ap-peal and was released on $3J00 bail. After a seven-year hunt the Chicago police declare that the murderer of Policeman Patrick H. Duffy has been found. Vincent Briscoe, alias Brittou, who is serving a sentence for robbery rob-bery in the San Quentin penitentiary in California, is thought to be the man. The court of appeals has affirmed the judgment of the lower court in the case of Dominador Gomez, the Manila Ma-nila labor leader convicted some time ago of having written a threatening letter during the strike of the launch-men, launch-men, but reduced his imprisonment to four months. The spectacle of a horse riding in an automobile was witnessed on the streets of Oakland last week. The horse, which was attached to a light delivery wagon ran away and jumped into a passing automobile and rode for almost a block before the machine was stopped. Edward P. Moxey, special national bank examiner, whose work furnished the basis for the successful prosecu tion of Charles V. Morse, is about to retire from government service, it is aunounced, to take charge of the accounting ac-counting department of the Guggenheim Guggen-heim interests. A fist fight at Knoxville, Tenn.. between be-tween J. C. Miller, pastor of Zion Lutheran Lu-theran church, and Solomon McGam-mon, McGam-mon, a member of his flock, resulted in the arrest of several members of the congregation and the minister. The encounter was the culmination of long-standing differences. The report of the New York charter char-ter commission proposes, among other things, "that no person shall be eligible for the office of mayor unless he shall have been a resident of the city for at least ten years preceding his election, and that the salary be increased to $25,000 a year " |